Each Year, the SCSB hosts a symposium to highlight current research. The invited speakers are world renowned leaders in their fields of research.
The 29th Structural Biology Annual Symposium
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Location: Health Education Center (HEC) Room 1.200
Chair: Prof. Guy Nir
co-Chair: Prof. Yunfeng ChenThe Center's 29th Annual Symposium was successfully held on April 5th. Five talks were presented by renowned scientists and students and postdoctoral fellows presented posters. Four of those posters were selected for awards of $100. The winners were Gabrielle Dewson (Grad Student, UTMB), Mariah Noggler (Grad Student, U of H), Mariia Rybak (Post Doc, UTMB), and Aditi Singh (Grad Student, UTMB).
Picture from Left to Right: Mariah Noggler (Grad Student, U of H), Aditi Singh (Grad Student, UTMB), Gabrielle Dewson (Grad Student, UTMB), Mariia Rybak (Post Doc, UTMB), and Mark White (Manager, X-ray Crystallography Resource, UTMB).
Invited Speakers
Kerry Bloom, Ph.D.
Professor
Biology Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
E-mail: kerry_bloom@unc.edu
Title: "Building springs with DNA"
Yifan Cheng, Ph.D.
Professor, HHMI Investigator
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
E-mail: yifan.cheng@ucsf.eduv
Title: "Cryo-EM studies of integrin αvβ8 mediated L-TGF-β activation"
Li-av Segev-Zarko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
E-mail: lisegevz@utmb.edu
Title: "Elucidating apicomplexan invasion: from macromolecular structures to biological function"
Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Ph.D.
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Rice University, Houston, TX
E-mail: anna-karin.gustavsson@rice.edu
Title: "Mapping cellular function using 3D single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy"
Jane Skok, Ph.D.
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation Oncology
Department of Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
E-mail: Jane.Skok@nyulangone.org
Title: "A genome wide code to define cell-type specific CTCF binding and chromatin organization"
